Iclaudius Quote:
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Quote by: Chandler Frank What is truth?
How do you define truth?
How do you define reality?
Am I really here, or is this just a product of my own imagination? Or the product of the imagination of another?
Is truth relative or absolute?
How do you define relative or absolute without relation to another absolute?
Thus how do you define truth without relation to an absolute? |
The thing is, even if you were products of your imagination, or someone's imagination, in order for you and your world to be imagined in the first place you and your environment must be physically possible on some level. And anything that is possible must exist, since the universe is infinite. Furthermore, even if what you experience isn't real, you do exist, somewhere. Infinite times. In infinitely varying degrees.
So, even if you are imagined, what you sense is, in a sense, true. Even if it was all generated by some mind, that mind would be subject to the same rules it would be operating under, constituting that the universe outside is subject to the same rules as the one you happen to be experiencing. Therefore, truth here must also be truth there. Thus, truth you sense really is truth.
Furthermore, truth is absolute and unwavering, and perhaps unknowable. It doesn't change; your perception of it does. This perception is called reality, and reality is made up of truths, experienced different ways.
I hope all this helps.